Robert Alwyn Hughes
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Robert Alwyn Hughes is a Welsh artist. Artwork and childhood Hughes's childhood memories continue to have an impact upon his artwork, with numerous references to Welsh landscape and culture, especially that of the south Wales valleys and Dowlais Top and Caeharris in particular: As a child he would regularly explore the local rugged landscape outside his back-door, just below the Brecon Beacons. His father worked at Bedlinog Colliery and had a love of Welsh literary classics. His mother was a devout Baptist and his uncles bread pigeons and ponies. The family's first language at home was Welsh until young Robert began attending the Dowlais Central School at the age of five years . A recent body of work, which references an older series, 1961's At Valleys End, highlights the relevance Hughes gives to his past growing up in a south Wales town, alongside a much more global perspective, with modern references to religion and warfare. Hughes puts great importance on needing a "grasp of identity worldwide", merging ideas, symbols and images from a number of different sources.
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